Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
MAN Truck & Bus SE has 2 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 2 examiners and 2 art units, placing each action in a distinct examination setting.
LIN, GIGI LEE is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The balanced distribution means neither examiner dominates the docket, so response planning should remain specific to each application and its assigned art unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| CRAIG, DANIEL THOMAS | 1 | 84.8% | +25.0% |
| LIN, GIGI LEE | 1 | 21.7% | -2.2% |
| LA RAIA III, LAWRENCE | 1 | 72.2% | +36.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18682864 | VEHICLE WITH COUPLED COOLING CIRCUITS FOR COOLING AN ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL | LIN, GIGI LEE | 18d overdue |
| 19115778 | DRIVER CAB KIT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED PRODUCTION METHOD | CRAIG, DANIEL THOMAS | — |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19115778 | DRIVER CAB KIT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED PRODUCTION METHOD | CRAIG, DANIEL THOMAS | — |
| 17642659 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE TEMPERATURE OF AN ENERGY STORE FOR ELECTRICAL ENERGY OF A MOTOR VEHICLE | LA RAIA III, LAWRENCE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3676 | 1 |
| 1726 | 1 |
| 1727 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19115778 | DRIVER CAB KIT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED PRODUCTION METHOD | CRAIG, DANIEL THOMAS | 3676 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 |
| 18682864 | VEHICLE WITH COUPLED COOLING CIRCUITS FOR COOLING AN ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL | LIN, GIGI LEE | 1726 | §103 | Final Rejection | 18d overdue | Pending | Feb 09, 2024 |
| 17642659 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE TEMPERATURE OF AN ENERGY STORE FOR ELECTRICAL ENERGY OF A MOTOR VEHICLE | LA RAIA III, LAWRENCE | 1727 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialMAN Truck & Bus SE has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Daniel Thomas Craig has the most, with 1 of MAN Truck & Bus SE's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
